Walk The Line Analysis

The movie I chose to do my report over was, Walk the Line. This film is about the life of the late, musical legend Johnny Cash. In the beginning of Walk the Line, they introduce the traumatic event that shapes the rest of Johnny’s life. John and his brother Jack planned to go fishing one day, before they could go his brother had to finish splitting wood. Johnny was getting impatient and Jack told him to go ahead and would catch up with him as soon as he was finished. While Johnny was fishing, Jack had a fatal accident with the wood splitter. Johnny’s father blamed him for the death of Jack, because he was not there to help him. He had a very rough childhood, because of the broken relationship he and his father have. John eventually joins

Johnny is performing and calls June out to sing a song with him, that she had previously recorded with her ex-husband, Times a Wasting. June was already apprehensive about singing the song, she felt it was not appropriate, but they continued anyways. While performing she sees the women from the store that told her getting a divorce was an abomination, she starts looking uncomfortable and Johnny kisses her on the check. She then runs off the stage into the dressing room, followed by Cash. She looked her door, but he bust in anyways, she tells him, “to leave.” He then goes into his room and sits on the couch, beside the fishing pole, you can tell he is very frustrated, because he felt the kiss was innocent. He then begins to destroy his dressing room throwing everything he gets his hands on. He then reaches into his pocket and takes his narcotics. The fourth example of abnormal behavior takes place 1:27 minutes into the movie. Johnny just got arrested for buying pills over the border. When he got released and went home, Vivian tells John that his parents stopped by. He asked what his father said about the arrest. His dad said, “Now he won’t have to try so hard to convince people that he went to jail.” I felt like this was an abnormal behavior because Johnny’s dad seemed unconcerned about his son during the a rough time in his